A colour image processing method for melanoma detection

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1496, Issue , 1998, Pages 562-569

  Colot, O ^a   Devinoy, R ^b   Sombo, A ^b   de Brucq, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ ET INSA DE ROUEN   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; DERMATOLOGY; MEDICAL COMPUTING; ONCOLOGY;

BENIGN LESION; CLASSIFICATION RATES; COLOUR IMAGE; DIGITIZED IMAGES; FINITE SET; MALIGNANT LESION; MELANOMA DETECTION; WHOLE PROCESS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 84947720596     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/bfb0056241     Document Type: Conference Paper

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